The Horizon

Winter fire causes major damage, no injuries

IUS Horizon • January 27, 2013

Maintenance workers for Cedar Ridge Apartments examine and photograph the damage of a fire that awoke the residents of 2313 Grant Line Road early Friday morning, Jan. 25. The emergency call came in...

Scholarship seeks science-concentrated students

IUS Horizon • January 27, 2013

IU Southeast provides many opportunities in order to help students pay for college. Recently, a new scholarship was created for students majoring in science, technology, engineering or math. The scholarship...

Grenadiers shut down Berea

IUS Horizon • January 27, 2013

The IUS men’s basketball team gained a lead on Berea College and never looked back Tuesday, Jan. 22, in the Athletics Building. The Grenadiers beat Berea College 105-76 in ,what may have been, a coming...

Student’s passion remains on the field

IUS Horizon • January 27, 2013

Shauna Gramig, catcher for the IU Southeast softball team, has had a passion for softball from a young age. “It all began in the first grade when my teacher sent a permission slip home to students,”...

Students learn self-defense mentality

IUS Horizon • January 27, 2013

Monica Wise, IUS Police sergeant, said the most important part of self-defense and personal safety is maintaining a survival mentality. Wise taught a self-defense class in Hoosier Room West on Thursday,...

Open Mic: English Club hosts Lit at Lunch

Aprile Rickert, Staff • January 27, 2013

The event, which happens once a month, is an open mic event. Anyone who wants to read or recite pieces of literature can participate. The material can be prose, poetry, fiction, nonfiction or academic—either...

Grade inflation questionable at IUS

IUS Horizon • December 2, 2012

Grade inflation — the trend of colleges rewarding students with higher grades than in the past — is a phenomenon affecting many of the nation’s institutes of higher education. However, as for IU Southeast, it is hard to tell whether or not this event is occurring on campus. “I don’t know if there is any evidence that [grade inflation] exists here at IUS,” said Joe Wert, dean of the School of Social Sciences. “It may, but I haven’t seen anything that makes me think that yes, there definitely is.”

Adviser inspired by past, looks forward to future

IUS Horizon • September 23, 2012

Quirky. Random. Talkative. Hard-working. Loyal. Helpful. These are just a few adjectives that describe Misti Whitaker, newest academic adviser for the School of Social Sciences. “I think one of the things that makes me so unique is my sense of humor,” Whitaker said. She said her sense of humor runs in the family. Each one of her three sisters, as well as her mother and stepfather, have a similar sense of humor.

GSA notes acceptance of campus sexuality

IUS Horizon • August 26, 2012

IU Bloomington received a five out of five for being accepting of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual students and staff members, according to their website on LGBT-Friendly Campus Climate Index. Of the various campuses, IU Southeast is not listed on the site. However, since IU Bloomington and IU Southeast are part of the same system, IU Southeast has a lot of resources for LBGT students and mirrors Bloomington.

Illegal downloading causes concern

IUS Horizon • January 29, 2012

IU Southeast has issued a notice to inform students of an increase in illegal downloading and sharing copyright songs and movies over the Internet on campus. Lee Staton, manager of communication and special projects, said he believes the rise is coming from the increase of students living on campus, increasing the usage of wired and wireless connections. “There was a significant increase in activity when the lodges first opened,” Staton said. “Since we have residents living on campus and a fast Internet connection, the environment was perfect for people to download. As we have started to educate students, there has been a steady decrease in the number of violations on our campus.”

Editor challenges where sidewalk ends

IUS Horizon • January 29, 2012

Love them or hate them, colleges are often synonymous to the pervasive sidewalk. Where you have a college campus, there is often a wealth of intertwining sidewalks. IU Southeast is no exception — we...

Veteran writer visits editing class, offers peace, inspiration

IUS Horizon • January 25, 2011

If students were in Crestview Hall on Jan. 18, they may have seen a small, ex- cited woman walking an Irish wolfhound and Great Pyrenees mix standing at about 3 and a half feet tall. Cynthia Schultz,...